CHANGE YOUR NARRATIVE

Researchers from Ohio State University have developed a new method for training people to be creative. Based on narrative theory, it helps people be creative by making up stories that imagine alternative worlds, shift perspective and generate unexpected actions. “We as a society radically undervalue the creativity of kids and many others because we’re obsessed with the idea that some people are more creative than others,” said Angus Fletcher, who developed the method and is a professor of English. “But the reality is that we’re just not training creativity in the right way.”